Palimpsest - Volume #4, Issue #2 (11/2015)

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0001

Guest Editors' Introduction
A View from Europe and the World—An Introduction to Black Europe: Subject, Struggles, and Shifting Perceptions
Jean-Paul Rocchi with Frédéric Sylvanise
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0017

Essays

"Chained Together in Time and Space": W. E. B. Du Bois Looks at the Warsaw Ghetto; James Baldwin Regards the Harlem Ghetto
Magdalena J. Zaborowska
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0018

Cold War and Black Transnationalism: Aimé Césaire and Mercer Cook at the First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists
Guirdex Massé
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0019

"On being young—a woman—and colored" in Paris and Tangier: The "strange longings" of Anita Thompson Dickinson Reynold's Early Years
Claire Oberon Garcia
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0020

Kenny Clarke and the Desire for More Inclusive "Black Music"
Rashida K. Braggs
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0021

"Don't Look So Sad Because You're a Little Negro": Marie Nejar, Afro-German Stardom, and Negotiations with Black Subjectivity
Priscilla Layne
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0022

Neither Color-Blind Nor Color-Conscious: Challenging French Universalism in the Plantation Colonies of the Antilles (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries)
Silyane Larcher
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0023

Reviews

Mattheiu Renault, Frantz Fanon: De l'anticolonialisme à la critique postcoloniale (Paris: Éditions Amsterdam, 2011), 224 pp.

Lewis R. Gordon
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0024

Tyler Stovall, Paris Noir, African Americans in the City of Light (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996; reissued 2012), 412 pp.

Tricia Danielle Keaton, T. Deanean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall, eds., Black France / France Noire, the History and Politics of Blackness (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012), 340 pp.
Laurence Cossu-Beaumont
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0025

The Nine Muses, directed by John Akomfrah (DVD, 92 minutes). Smoking Dog Films, United Kingdom, 2010.
Dagmar Brunow
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0026

French Immersion: Black France in L. Miano's Tels des astres éteints and A. Mabanckou's Black Bazar
Léonora Miano, Tels des astres éteints (Paris: Plon, 2008), 408 pp.

Alain Mabanckou, Black Bazar (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2009), 264 pp.
Cyril Vettorato
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0027

The Art of Engagement Forum

The World's Image—Self-Portrait as a Conscious Lie
Jean-Paul Rocchi
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0028

Contributors

http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2015.0029